[FRIAM] Here's How the Texas Energy Grid Fell Short

[cody dooderson]

Leave it to a conservative think tank to get to the root of this story
first(sarcasm). I would like to see some proof to their assertion, and
hopefully before my inlaws come over and rant my ear off about the dangers
of Biden's wind power . Wind power is only about 16% of Texas' total energy
generation 🌬. While I do not understand the details of electricity grids,
I find it hard to believe that a few frozen wind turbines lead to a near
statewide blackout.
On top of that, I was under the impression that wind power was very
intermittent, and energy storage is still a huge problem. Was the Texas
power grid relying on the wind to be blowing really hard during this cold
snap?
That being said I hope renewable energies become more reliable and cheap
and those conservative think tanks lose their Exxon funding.

🌬 October 2017 data from
https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=2,0,1&fuel=vtvv&sec=g&geo=0000000002&freq=M&tab=generation&start=200101&end=201710&ctype=linechart&ltype=pin&maptype=0&rse=0&pin=



Cody Smith


On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 8:51 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.texaspolicy.com/heres-how-the-texas-energy-grid-fell-short/
>
> Another viewpoint on the Texas Powergrid mystery.
>
> Clean energy is definitely made the boogie man here.
>
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